Octagon Capital launches levered version of flagship fund

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19 Jul 2012

Singapore-based Octagon Capital, a group established by managers formerly employed at the Government Investment Corp (GIC), Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has launched a levered version of its successful flagship fund, the Octagon Pan Asia Fund.

The new long/short equity strategy, which began trading on 2 July, actively uses leverage to generate monthly returns approximately double that of the flagship fund, according to the managers.

The flagship fund has $152 million in assets while the leveraged version was seeded at $11 million. It was sourced mostly from the two partners, Nelson Chia and Lam Poh Min, as well as

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